God of shinobi

by Asimpleshadow

Category: NarutoGenre: Adventure, RomanceLanguage: EnglishCharacters: Naruto U.Status: In-ProgressPublished: 2016-04-15 18:42:47Updated: 2016-04-24 21:00:13Packaged: 2016-04-27 16:29:03Rating: MChapters: 4Words: 18,022Publisher: www.fanfiction.netSummary: What if Minato never died and instead raised Naruto howwould the Jinchuriki be different? Read and see as Naruto progressesto be the next God of Shinobi Rated M for future ideas Naruto x(surprise have to read to find out won't be for a bitthough)

1. Chapter 1 death of the demon

**Chapter 1: Death to the Demon**

**Disclaimer: I don't own naruto and probably never will.**

**This is my first time** **writing**** so hopefully it's wellreceived I've been wanting to write this for awhile and just recentlybecame motivated to do so. Basic idea is what if Minato didn't dieand raised naruto. There are many similar to this idea but alldifferent so I hope you all like my interpretation**

**(Name is changeable haven't set this one in concrete)**

**Naruto: God of Shinobi**

Night of the Kyuubi attack

Minato stared at his wife, one claw from the Kyuubi going rightthrough her stomach. She looked at him and smiled "I'm sorry Minatobut our son needs you in his life", she says tears streaming downboth of their faces

They had both jumped in front of the claw ready to sacrificethemselves to protect their newborn child. At least they both weresupposed to, however at the last second Kushina created one lastchakra chain to collide with Minato barely avoiding the claw goingthrough him as well.

He stared at her "K-Kushina please don't leave us it's not supposedto be this way he needs us both in his life we're both supposed to bethere for him not just me."

"He'll have you and that's good enough I love you both protect ourson from the man that did this teach him everything he'll need toknow and be a great father Minato I love you both. Now I'm going toseal half of it in you and the other half in Naruto he will need itspower, you both will, to defeat the man who did this.", She proceededto do the seals to summon the Shinigami. It's hand reached into herand into the Kyuubi it then sealed half of it in Minato and the otherhalf in Naruto.

Minato fell to the ground on his hands and knees, gasping as the painin his stomach unbearable. He looked at Kushina who was on the groundnow she looked at him and smiled "take care of him make sure he eatshealthy watch out while he's around ero- Jiraiya sensei and LadyTsunade don't let him pick up their habits and Minato I loveyou."

Minato looked up at her "I love you too Kushina, we will defeat himwhen he returns and our son will become a great ninja" the Shinigamithen took her soul and the pain in his stomach subsided. There wasbarely any strength left in him but he needed to see his son. Hecrawled to Naruto "My son you will be great." Then the world wentblack

The barrier dropped and Hiruzen ran forward in his battle gear. "OhKami Kushina no." He ran to her but knew she was gone he then ran toMinato and with relief found a pulse. " MEDICS NOW WE ARE NOT LOSINGHIM TOO!" He screamed causing Naruto to wake up and begin crying.Hiruzen walked over to the newborn child and picked him up gentlyrocking him back and forth "there there little one you'll be okeverything will be ok" the medics appeared and quickly did a scan ofMinato and Naruto.

"Both are alright Minato is just suffering from chakra exhaustionhe'll wake up in the morning tired but ok. And Sarutobi-Sama theyboth have the eight-trigrams seal, they're both the Jinchuriki of theKyuubi." Two of the medics then picked up Minato on a stretcher andshunshin to the hospital with Hiruzen in tow carrying Naruto.

The next morning

Minato awoke with a start "Kushina!" He screamed praying to Kami thatit was all a dream. He looked around and saw he was in the hospitaland saw Naruto waking up next to him. The Anbu burst into the room"Hokage-Sama is everything ok?",

"Yes I'm fine now I was just hoping that I woke up from anightmare"

"We are sorry for your loss Hokage-Sama if you need anything we willbe outside the door."

"Thank you bear, please inform Hiruzen-Dono that I have woken up Iknow he will want to speak with me

"Hai hokage-sama"

Minato then raised his hospital gown to inspect the new seal on hisstomach. Everything seemed to be perfect he then inspected naruto'sand found the same results. "Kushina I miss you already you did afantastic job."

The aged Sarutobi walked in his face tired and drained. "Minato whathappened?" Minato then told him everything of the masked man of himsummoning and controlling the Kyuubi of their fight and finally ofKushina's sacrifice and his and his sons new status as jinchuriki's."Jiraiya and Tsunade are on their way back I informed them after Ibrought Naruto here, they were close and should be here tomorrow atlatest until then you need rest."

"No I need to talk to my people and inform them of what occurred andshow that I am healthy, hopefully my status as a Jinchuriki willdeter them from hating me or my son."

Hiruzen sighed and looked at Minato and saw the determination andstrength return back to him "fine would you like me to send some Anbuto retrieve your clothes and some for Naruto as well?"

"Yes, and Hiruzen I'm sorry about Biwako she was an amazingmedic."

The previous hokage turned to look out the window while tears beganto fall down his face " I need to tell Asuma still."

The Anbu arrived with the clothing and food for all three of them.After they ate and got ready Minato picked up Naruto and teleportedto hokage tower where a crowd was already formed wanting to know whathappened to the Kyuubi and their Hokage.

Minato appeared in front of the building the crowd gasped slightly atthe sight of his son. "Last night we suffered many losses I myselflost my wife Kushina Uzumaki." His voice was amplified so everyonecould here him. More and more people joined the crowd to the pointwhere majority of the village was in the area. A murmur spread acrossthe crowd as no one even knew the Hokage had even been dating someonelet alone married and had a child. "She sacrificed herself to sealthe Kyuubi away in me and my son. We are Jinchuriki but we are notcontrolled by the demon as many as you believe. Kushina was theprevious Jinchuriki and I know many of you were close friends withher. I love this village and its people but I will not stand foranyone disrespecting my son because they get the foolish thought thathe is the Kyuubi. Repairs will begin immediately but for now thedanger to this village is gone."

The was much talk around the village after that. Their Hokage was thecontainer of the Kyuubi but he seemed the same, perhaps there wasnothing to fear and he wasn't controlled by the demon. Not only thatbut he had a son! A son who will surely be powerful and continue toprotect this village as a ninja and be as great a Shinobi as hisparents. But there was also news that those who saw the Kyuubiclaimed its eyes were red with three tomoe. Once Minato heard of thishe immediately summoned Fugaku to the tower.

"Hokage-Sama you wished to speak with me?" The elder Uchiha said witha slight warmth.

"Fugaku you know there's no reason to address me as such, Minato is

just fine. And as to why I summoned you here, I presume you've heardthe rumors spreading about the Kyuubi?"

"Yes I have, and they are disheartening there is much distrusttowards the Uchiha lately."

"It was an Uchiha who controlled the Kyuubi Fugaku, but there's onlyone Uchiha who can do that"

"B-But that's not possible he's dead!"

"If anyone could cheat death this long it's him, there's no onestrong enough to control it or with the knowledge to be able to planout the full attack, he's done it before it wouldn't be hard to do itagain."

"Madara Uchiha is back, Minato I'm sorry this man is from my clanand-"

"Please Fugaku this man does not represent the Uchiha, one evilperson does not represent everyone as a whole."

"Minato thank you, I almost forgot, Mikoto and I would like you tostay at the Uchiha compound we will help with raising young Narutowhile you run this village and I know it must be hard to behome."

"I haven't stepped foot in the house yet, I haven't been able to yetand yes I accept your offer, thank you my friend.

**Well I didn't mean for this to be so long, they usually won't befrom here on out I just wanted to have the ground basis set for thestory as the next chapter will already be Naruto in the academy aboutto graduate there will be some flashbacks to explain stuff here andthere as well. Hopefully you all enjoyed this see ya guys nexttime**

2. Chapter 2 Graduation

**Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto but maybe just maybe I'll convinceKishi one day **

**Wow thanks guys I was expecting honestly maybe like 2 or 3 peopleto actually see this so great that more did. Did not realize howshort that chapter was ill try to make the next ones longer**

**Chapter 2: Graduation Day**

"Naruto-kun come on get up you're going to be late!" Minato yelled athis son who was currently dead asleep upstairs in the Namikazeestate.

Minato had requested that he'd receive a house not a full compoundseeing as it was just him and Kushina at the time. The house was hugeto say the least three stories tall with a sub level that served as atraining area. The first level served as the living, dining room, andguest area with 4 master sized bedrooms for any guests. The secondlevel held four additional bedrooms meant for the owner and their

family two of them occupied by Minato and Naruto. The rooms were hugeand had privacy and protection seals to make sure no one uninvitedcould sneak in, well they could but they would be attacked by variouspoisons and kunai. The final level held every last bit of knowledgethat Minato and Kushina had on their respective clans, they eventraveled to Uzushiogakure to find if there was any left over scrollsor anything of knowledge left. They had in fact found several scrollsand heirlooms which were all held there as well as scrolls passeddown and written by Minato on his clan techniques and his own.

The years had been well to Minato and the only noticeable differencewas that his hair was considerably longer with it reaching the middleof his back and his bangs fell just passed his chin.

"Coming dad just finished getting ready." Naruto shouted as he jumpedover the stairs. He wore a black shirt that served as armor due tovarious seals hidden on it. His Shinobi pants were a dark grey withseveral pockets with the same seals as his shirt. Over this he wore ablack cloak with an orange flame pattern across the bottom. As muchas his father tried Naruto refused to not have any orange on hisattire since it was, according to him, the best color possible. Onhis right hand he wore a gold ring with an orange stone set in place,all along the ring were patterns of spirals in honor of the Uzumakisymbol and his mother. Minato consider the ring one of his bestcreations as there was two seals on it one for durability and theother one was a huge breakthrough for him, it allowed the user totransfer chakra into the stone where it would be held indefinitelyuntil the user chose to draw it out. It could hold an indefiniteamount of chakra, seeing as Naruto had huge amounts of chakra andcould afford to dump copious amounts into the stone, it would beamazing for if the case should arise that he'd somehow be in aconflict and ended up with hardly any chakra.

"Alright dad I'm ready to go."

Minato went to his son and hugged him. He realized he hardly neededto bend down any as his son had gone through a growth spurt goingfrom 4 feet 5 inches to an even 5 feet putting him at one of thetallest in his class.

"Your mother would've been proud of you Naruto, now let's head outand get you your headband, I'm so proud of you."

They walked out the door.

**Other side of town**

"Sasuke-kun enough training you don't want to be late or be sweatyand dirty for your graduation!" Mikoto yelled at her son who wascurrently training with his older brother Itachi

"Yes Sasuke-kun we need to leave soon we have to meet withHokage-sama and Naruto-kun."

"Hn good let get there soon want to have enough time to get in a sparwith the dobe" Sasuke said with a slight grin. Itachi just rolled hiseyes, ever since they were young his brother and surrogate brotherhad a strong rivalry but it had advanced their strengths and gavethem a huge drive to constantly train resulting in both being easilythe strongest in their class. Itachi and Sasuke then shunshined to

the Namikaze estate meeting Minato and Naruto right as they walkedout

"Ah Itachi-kun I've told you before contrary to what the eldersbelieve, I don't need a bodyguard." After the Kyuubi incident andonce Minato moved back to the Namikaze estate after spending threeyears at the Uchiha compound, the council deemed it necessary thatMinato was to have a bodyguard with him at all times on top of theAnbu patrol. At first this manifested itself as Kakashi Hatake whowas around constantly and even moved into the estate. Once he becamea jounin sensei at the urging of Minato the council assigned Itachiwho at the very least agreed to not move in with them.

"Sorry hoka-"

"Minato is fine Itachi you know that."

Hai, Hokage-Sama." Itachi said with a small smile on his face. Duringthis exchange Naruto and Sasuke had been glaring daggers at eachother with a thin stream of lightning flying between the two.

"Don't take it too hard when I show everyone today that I'm thebetter ninja Teme."

"Hn in your dreams dobe I've wiped the floor with you the last fewspars."

"Alright you two try not to cause too much damage to the schoolplease I can't deal with the paperwork." Minato then sighed andrepeated more to himself than anyone else that damn paperwork."Alright Naruto, Sasuke good luck to both of you Itachi and I will bethere when you two get out we have a surprise for the both of you IFyou pass." Minato said with a smile as he saw the determinationalmost visibly show as tiny flames appeared in both of the boy'seyes.

Naruto then gave his father a hug and Sasuke gave Itachi a hug thengave a small bow to the Hokage and then both used a shunshin toappear in the classroom in an instant while also knocking a desk overand scattering papers everywhere.

Iruka using his head grow jutsu screamed at the two soon to beShinobi "DAMN IT YOU TWO HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I SAID TO NOT USE THATJUTSU IF YOU CAN'T CONTROL YOUR SPEED NOW PICK EVERYTHING UP" hishead then shrank down and he gave a small smile as the Jinchuriki andthe Uchiha heir scrambled to pick up the most papers. Despite theirantics he had to admit it was interesting to say the least to havetwo students who weren't even genin yet to be able to use theshunshin among other jutsu. They had already proven in their firstyear to be able to do the clone jutsu so their parents had requestedtheir exam be different than anyone else's. "Alright everyone takeyour seats we will now begin the exams to pass, first up isShikamaru." He looked around and saw Shikamaru asleep already in theback of the class and proceeded to grab a piece of chalk and launchit at his head waking up the lazy Nara. Once he got him on his way hecontinued the exams with everyone passing perfectly, well everyoneexcept the young Uchiha and Namikaze.

"Iruka sensei what about me and Sasuke-teme?" Naruto asked

"Shut up dobe" Sasuke said to Naruto, glaring daggers and yet againthe stream of electricity sparking between the two.

"Yeah why haven't they gone Iruka how're they supposed to pass,become ninja and inevitably fall in love with me?" Sakurayelled

Both sweat dropped at this not wanting to hear the same speech againas they had heard it countless times.

"In your dreams forehead they're mine!" Ino yelled at the pinkete whothen proceeded to stick her tongue out at Ino. Chouji then had tograb Ino to prevent her from attacking Sakura and causing a scene, aswhat usually happens almost everyday. The whole commotion was enoughto wake up the lazy Nara who only uttered a simple "troublesome"before putting his head back down.

"Alright enough, Enough….ENOUGH LET ME TALK." Iruka yelled havingto grow his head to comical proportions again to gain the attentionof his students. It was times like these that he wondered if he wouldhave been better off forcing the two to graduate after their firstyear, it sure would've saved him the trouble of girls constantlycausing commotions to gain the attention of the heirs. Unfortunatelyfor them ignoring the girls only seemed to make them try harder togain their attention.

"Anyways if you had let me finish I was about to say that they willbe given a different test seeing as they were able to perform theclone jutsu already. Now if you all would follow me outside we canfinish the exams.

The student followed Iruka outside to the training grounds. "AlrightNaruto, Sasuke, I was given special instructions from your parentsNaruto your test will be to mak WHAT there's no possible way you knowthis jutsu. And Sasuke th-this isn't possible neither of you can dothese tasks."

"Common Iruka sensei what's the test? We kind of need those if wewant to graduate!" Naruto said to his teacher. Sasuke gave a simplenod and a "what the dobe said."

Iruka sighed, "alright Naruto your test is to make a rasengan withone hand and Sasuke you will need to perform the fireball jutsu usingonly the tiger seal. I don't know how either of you are possiblyexpected to perform these-" he stopped and could only stare at Narutoas he created a perfect rasengan and as Sasuke used the fireballjutsu using the one seal.

Naruto and Sasuke looked at him and raised their eyebrows as if tosay "was that it?" Meanwhile the various girls of the class weregoing crazy about how cool they were. The young heirs could only rolltheir eyes. After Iruka came over his initial shock he could onlysmile at the idea of how powerful these two were. "Alright well I'mhappy to say that all of you have passed, please come back inside toget your headband and tomorrow teams will be assigned first thing inthe morning, I'm very proud of all of you today you begin yourcareers as Shinobi of Konoha and from here on out the challenges willonly be tougher and tougher as your caliber as a ninja grows, todayyou are all adults in the eyes of the world and are no longer kids, Icongratulate all of you my former students and new genin of

Konoha."

"Alright teme I think now would be a perfect time for a spar so I cankick your ass in front of everyone."

Sasuke looked over at the blond and gave a small smile " just what Iwas thinking dobe don't take it too hard when you lose."

They both dashed forward meeting in the middle as their fistscollided creating a small shock wave where their fists collided. Bothjumped back and Naruto dashed forward sliding on his knees to avoidSasuke's punch. Immediately after his fist passed over the blondshair he turned around aiming to punch the back of sasuke's knee.Sasuke jumped and spun connecting with Naruto's chin on a roundhousekick sending him flying, Naruto flipped in mid-air and landed on allfours immediately pouncing back to the Uchiha. They exchanged aflurry of punches and kicks none of which connected until Narutofocused chakra into his fist then thrusted forward shouting"fuuton:Gale fist!" The attacked released sending a ball of condensedair straight into Sasuke launching him away. Taking advantage of thisthe young Namikaze sped forward and jumped using the same roundhousekick the Uchiha used previously, sending him flying into thebuilding. Sasuke bounced off the building and Naruto ran under him,grabbing his leg and slammed him down into the ground. He then beganto charge chakra into his fist again for the same attack and right ashe sent out the compressed air Sasuke flipped around shooting a smallfireball the resulting explosion giving him enough time to get away.Naruto had quickly pulled his cloak over him protecting him of alldamage from the explosion. They ran forward again and at about 20feet from each other both simultaneously shouted "Katon: grandfireball jutsu!" The attacks flew at each other creating trenches asthey moved. They collided and canceled out in an explosion that sentboth heirs flying back.

"Alright you two that's enough for today" Minato said as he appearedright in between the two with Itachi appearing momentslater.

"Hogake-Sama, Itachi-Sama, I'm sure you will be pleased to know thatthey both passed the exams." Iruka said with a small and a hint ofpride in his voice.

"Did they now, well Minato I suppose they do deserve their surprisesthen do they not?" Itachi asked.

Minato smiled and pulled out two scrolls and tossed them to Narutoand Sasuke. "Alright boys see what's in them, I'm sure you will likethem." They put a small amount of chakra into the swords and with apoof their gifts arrived; two nearly identical katanas with a goldround cross guard and for Naruto's an orange hilt and for Sasuke ablack hilt. Naruto's blade had a slight green tinge to it andSasuke's had a slight red tinge to the metal. The swords edges wereserrated.

"There's special seals on them as you can see by the color, Narutochannel chakra into your blade and Sasuke you do the same." Minatosaid to the new genin. They did as they were told and sasuke's bladeimmediately lit aflame and Naruto's gained a slight blue haze aroundit that also lengthened the blade considerably. "Naruto yourschannels wind chakra regardless if you change your chakra nature and

Sasuke yours does the same with fire. This feature can be turned offif you quickly put two burst of chakra into the blade and can beturned on the same way. The scabbards for the blades attach to yourback with a special seal on them all you have to do is put it on yourback and it'll stay, only you two can use your blades as I've putseals on them that prevent anyone else from using them. If someonewere to well the blade would first send a jolt of electricity andthen become dull."

"Thank you dad, thank you Itachi Niisan." Naruto said. Sasuke lookedat his older brother and his Hokage and gave similar thanks, trulyappreciating the swords and the work that must've gone into craftingthem.

"Alright how does bar-b-que sound to you guys?" Minato asked them.All three agreed and they headed over to the nearest spot tocelebrate.

**The next day**

"Alright everyone settle down I know you're all excited to see yourteams now team one will consist of." Iruka went through the list ofteams the reached team seven. " Alright team seven will be NarutoNamikaze, Sasuke Uchiha, and-"

Both Sakura and Ino could be seen at this point crossing theirfingers and saying prayers to kami to be on that team.

"And Sakura Haruno."

"YES YES YES A TEAM WITH BOTH OF THEM TAKE THAT INO-PIG LOVE ALWAYSWINS" Sakura and Ino then proceeded to toss insults back and forthwhile Naruto and Sasuke dropped their heads on the desk with anaudible "thud"

"Of all people we got stuck with the fan girl, of course, she betternot hold me back I'm not babysitting her while we're on missions."Sasuke said

"Could be worse teme she is smart so she has that going for her, asfar as everything else though...well she's book smart I should say."Naruto said with a forced cheerfulness as he attempted to find asilver lining with the pinkete being the third member.

"Alright team 8 will consist of Kiba Inuzuka, Shino Aburame, andHinata Hyuuga." The three new team members all looked at each otherand gave a smile indicating they were, with the exception of one bluehaired girl, happy with the overall team.

"And team 10 will be Chouji Akimichi, Shikamaru Nara, and InoYamanaka." At this the blond haired girl dropped her head complainingabout the team while thinking that she couldn't believe her parentswere forcing them into the Ino-Shika-Cho tradition. "Troublesomewoman" was all the lazy Nara had to say.

"Alright everyone get with your teams your jounin sensei's should behere any time now."

One by one their sensei's came and went until only team 7 was left,two hours after everyone else had already gone. Naruto and Sasuke,

who figured out already that their sensei had to be Kakashi as noother jounin would dare be this late, just sat and worked on chakracontrol exercises while Sakura switched between complaining abouttheir sensei being late and trying to get either boy to go on a datewith her. Finally after 2 and a half hours Kakashi arrived.

"YOURE LATE!" Sakura yelled much to the annoyance of Sasuke anddiscomfort of Naruto.

"Well a black cat crossed my path so I had to take the long wayaround" Kakashi said with his trademark eye smile.

"Your excuses are getting worse Kakashi-Niisan, you know that right?"Naruto told his and his father's former roommate and bodyguard

"Hm what was that Naruto?" Kakashi asked making his voice as sincereas possible to which Naruto could only sweat drop. "Alright team meetme on the roof." And with that the cyclops vanished in a poof ofsmoke.

The 3 genin quickly followed with Naruto and Sasuke leaving with ashunshin leaving Sakura behind to walk up the roof byherself.

"Finally, we've been waiting for you Sakura." Naruto said with a flatvoice, while he didn't hate her like Sasuke seemed to he also didn'tlike her and saw her as a liability for upcoming missions. _I'll haveto ask her to do one on one training with me afterwards hopefully afew weeks of that should at least improve her skills enough_ Narutothought.

"Alright now that we're all here how about you tell me somethingabout yourselves hm what're your likes, dislikes, goals, things likethat?" Kakashi said.

"Why don't you go first so we know what you mean." The pinkete askedher new sensei. At this question all three of the men rolled theireyes.

_What's there to know the question is self explanatory. Oh well Iguess I have to humor her, maybe I would've been better off watchingMinato-sensei constantly. _"Uh alright well I'm Kakashi Hatake I likemany things as for my dislikes well I don't want to tell you thoseand as for my goal well that's private." Kakashi said giving an eyesmile while all three of his students sweat dropped. "Alright uhpinky you go first."

She glared at him first then said "I'm Sakura Haruno, I like, wellthe people I like" she then glanced over to her left and rightlooking at her two teammates then blushed " I dislike Ino-pig and mygoals" she then looked again at the two boys who only rolled theireyes.

"Uhm alrighty then Naruto why don't you go next."

"There's really no point Kakashi-niisan you and Sasuke already knowabout me."

Kakashi just sighed and looked at his student "just do the exerciseNaruto"

"Alright my name is Naruto Namikaze, I like ramen, training, andbeating Sasuke-teme at sparing, I dislike when tousan doesn't let meeat ramen for breakfast or when ero-sennin is being a pervert, as formy goal I want to become strong to protect the people I care aboutand become the greatest Hokage, even better than tousan."

"Sasuke you can go now."

"I'm Sasuke Uchiha, I like when Niisan and tousan train me and teachme new jutsu, I dislike the dobe, and my goal is to become strongerthan Niisan and tousan and become clan head."

_Alright well those two I don't have to worry about I already knowtheir strong but Sakura on the other hand _he then glanced up at herand saw her already attempting to get either boy to go on a date withher _yeah that's going to be fun she's smart but as far as everythingelse, she needs some serious training and I highly doubt that sheeven knows why she wants to be a Shinobi._ "Alright team well thatwas fun, tomorrow meet me at training ground 3 at 5 in the morningand don't eat breakfast otherwise you'll throw up." Kakashi said witha hint of malice "alright see you then." He said cheerfully thendisappeared in a cloud of smoke.

Naruto looked at Sakura and saw that there was a hint of fear afterwhat Kakashi said. " you know he's lying right?"

"What? How do you know?"

"He's a ninja and not just any ninja he's a former Anbu they'retrained in deceit he's obviously lying so that we show up tomorrowhalf starved and weak, oh and he's at the very least 3 hours late toanything so show up a few minutes before 8. Sakura if you want tojoin us me and teme are going to train with Itachi-Niisan with ourswords, you can train with your kunai."

_He's inviting to go with him! But it's to train I don't want them tosee me sweaty and dirty though._ "I'll just go and watch"

"If that's all you're going to do then don't come." Sasuke saidalready walking away

"Alright fine I suppose I could train." _I'll just stop once I breaka sweat._

The trio headed towards the training ground and met with Itachi whoshowed the boys a new style, he and Minato had taught them differentones before using wooden swords as they had wanted them to know howto properly use the blades before they got them. After Itachi showedthem a kata he worked with Sakura on her accuracy and how to throw akunai using the least amount of energy but getting the most powerfrom the throw. They all trained until nightfall and headed back totheir respective houses.

The next morning the three genin met at the training only having towait about 10 minutes before their sensei arrived. He had beenexpecting to receive looks of anger or frustration at the least butnothing and on top of that they all looked like they had just ate. Heglanced over at Naruto and Sasuke and saw smug smiles on the both ofthem. "You know you two could at least let me have some fun." He said

slightly disheartened at the fact that they ruined what he considered"fun".

"No can do Niisan what's usually fun for you isn't fun for me,actually it usually ends in me being injured you jerk."

"Huh sorry Naruto did you say something?" He then smiled as theblonde grumbled to himself and was visibly annoyed. _Well at leastthat still gets a rise out of the kid. _"Anyways team your mission isto collect these two bells." He held them up and they chimed slightlywith the wind. "Only two of you will pass the other will be sent backto the academy to redo the full fourth year."

"YOU CAN'T DO THAT TO US THAT HAS TO BE ILLEGAL."

I can and I will do it you all are now my students, well at least twoof you will be, and what I says goes I am your jounin commander. Nowyou have till noon to get the bells and begin." Kakashi said in acold and serious voice sounding angry and harsh. He smiled to himselfthough when everyone dashed away once he said begin. _Well at leastthey're smart enough to do that, however Naruto and Sasuke willfigure out soon that this is really about teamwork. _

Naruto dashed away but he kept sight of where Sasuke and Sakura went._Three man cells don't exist only four, three genin and a jouninthere's no way he can send one of us back, no he'd have to send allof us back so why did he tell us only two would pass. Wait we have totake them from him there's no way a genin can take on Kakashi, hell Ican't even do that by myself me and Sasuke maybe but we're notaverage genin so that would mean THAT'S IT. He used the scare tacticto get us to separate and build distrusts between us one person can'tdo this alone the actual exercise is about teamwork. We would putourselves aside and worry about a team as a whole that's what thisexercise is about. Crap I need to find Sasuke and Sakura otherwise wewon't have any chance of passing and I'm not going back to school fora year. _After searching for a bit he finally found Sasuke and afterthat it wasn't too hard to find Sakura he informed them of what theexercise is actually about then they proceeded to make a plan.

_Hm it's already been half an hour and I haven't any of them. I'dlike to read my book but that's not going to be possible with Narutoand Sasuke here._ He heard a rustle in the bushes and Naruto walkedout "You know while you may be good you're not strong enough to takeme one by yourself."

"I'm never by myself Kakashi you know that." His hands went into afamiliar cross shape and he shouted "shadow clone jutsu!" Two copiesof him appeared and all three unsheathed their swords, one of thenaruto's slashed horizontally across shouting "fuuton: wind slash" alarge wave of wind with the cutting power of the blade flew atKakashi who then jumped in the air. "You're going to have to dobetter than that Naruto!" One of the clones had been condensing theair underneath his feet and once Kakashi was at his peak the clonejumped "fuuton: compression jump" the air pressure released as theclone jumped launching it into the air. Right when he was slightlybelow Kakashi the clone performed the same attack timing it so thatKakashi would fall into the deadly crescent of wind. It appeared thatthe attack hit severing his knees from his body but as he hit thefloor a poof of smoke appeared at the spot and when it cleared asevered log laid in his place.

_Hm that was good but he's working by himself still I'd have thoughtfor sure they figured it out._ Just at that moment he heard thedistinct sound of a blade being drawn and he flew out of the treethat was serving as his hiding, a large wave of fire chasing afterhim. The jounin landed on the ground with Naruto in front of him andSasuke behind him.

"Dobe now!"

Naruto and Sasuke charged at Kakashi holding their blades behindthem. "Fuuton: severing tornado" Naruto shouted as he jumped and spunin a circle landing with his sword point forward, a large tornadoappeared and flew forward destroying the ground as it moved forward.The same Naruto did this Sasuke jumped and slashed downward shouting"Katon: tremor explosion" as his blade hit the ground a red crackappeared moving fast towards Kakashi. He raised the blade shouting"release" creating an explosion that connected with the tornadocausing an even larger explosion destroying the area Kakashi had beenoccupying. At the last moment he had shunshined into the tree. Hesmiled to himself as that certainly counted as teamwork. He then felta kunai against his head.

"Got you Kakashi sensei you shouldn't have let your guard down."Sakura said a large smile appearing on her face.

Kakashi smiled and shunshined to the middle of the field. Sakurajumped down and the boys stood by on guard still. "You all pass. Thepoint of the exercise as you've figured out was to work together. Inthis Shinobi world those who break the rules are scum but those whoabandon their comrades are worse than scum this exercise was to makesure you all could put yourselves aside and worry about the team as awhole I'm proud of the three of you. We are now officially team 7congratulations.

**Hopefully you all liked this if there's anything that I did wrongor just have CONSTRUCTIVE criticism tell me please again this is myfirst story so any advice is welcome thank you all. I should updateagain in a few days for the most part I know how I want this story togo so I should update within a few days constantly, although the newupdate for destiny did just come out...**

3. Chapter 3

**Disclaimer I don't own Naruto but I am planing a trip to Japanwhere I will find Kishi and somehow convince him to pass the rightsto me, if anyone has any ideas on how I will do this please tell me.**

Chapter 3

"You know when we became Genin I thought we'd be going on excitingmissions saving lives kicking bandit's asses, not CHASING AFTER THISDAMN CAT TWICE A DAY FOR THE 10TH DAY IN A ROW." Naruto screamed ashe Sasuke and Sakura were currently chasing after the bane of allgenin teams: Tora the cat. "COME HERE YOU STUPID CAT." Naruto shoutedas he leaped forward, arms outstretched in a vain attempt to catchthe cat as Tora just gained a burst of speed just barely running awayfrom being captured. The young Namikaze coughed and sputtered

grumbling under his breath as he got a face full of dirty fromcrashing into the ground instead of catching the cat.

"You're father is the fastest Shinobi alive, you'd think that his sonwould've inherited that speed!" Sasuke shouted at Naruto as he ranforward continuing the chase with Tora.

"Stupid teme stupid cat stupid lady who loves that damn cat too much,alright teme wants to see speed fine." Naruto then stood up andclosed his eyes as he concentrated and focused chakra, sending it toall his limbs. He opened his eyes and then he was gone. He appearedseveral yards in front of Sasuke, stopping just inches away fromcrashing into a tree, with Tora in his arms. He had been working onthat technique, a slightly more advanced form of the Shunshin bypumping more chakra into his body giving him double the speed of ausual shunshin but also less control than he already had as it gavehim awful tunnel vision to the point where he couldn't distinctly seewhat was in front him, so up until this try it ended with himcrashing into a tree, going through a few several times.

"Was that fast enough teme?"

"Hn" was the Uchiha's only response. He was about to say somethingelse but Sakura had caught up to them and immediately ran right toNaruto's side. "That was so cool Naruto-kun you looked just like theHokage running that fast that was great."

"Yeah uh thanks Sakura." Naruto said as he attempted to slowly scoochaway from his rather affectionate teammate. Luckily for him theirsensei arrived as his team had completed their last mission of theday and it was time to turn all of them in and receive their pay, andhe had a special surprise for the three genin who had been completingnothing but D ranks, several a day at that, for close to 3 weeksnow.

"Naruto be careful with that technique you were inches away fromgoing head first through that tree."

"Yeah I know sensei I'm still working on it."

The four of them walked back to the center of the village, givingTora back to the fire daimyŕ's wife on their way to the missionreturn center next to Hokage tower. After they turned in all themissions they had completed that day and then received their pay,Kakashi turned to his team with an eye smile on his face and said"Alright team I have a little surprise for you all, as of today we'vedone enough D ranks to be allowed to complete a C-rank, we have anescort mission and we are leaving tomorrow morning."

"FINALLY, I finally get to test my skills against someone." Narutoshouted enthusiastically while jumping in the air.

"Ah ah ah Naruto it's a C-rank escort so hopefully we won't encounteranyone, it should be straight-forward we accompany our client to theLand of Waves and watch him as he finishes building a bridge then wecome back, simple."

At this Naruto, Sasuke, and even Sakura actually looked disappointed,though she looked less than the boys did.

"Alright team we're leaving at 6 in the morning go home let yourfamilies now and pack I'll see you all tomorrow." And with a smileand a wave Kakashi was gone in a puff of smoke.

"Naruto-kun do you want to go-"

"Sorry Sakura I have to go train and uhh pack."

"Oh… Sasuke-kun do you want to go out to eat right now?" She turnedand saw that Sasuke was already gone. She then looked back at Narutowith an almost pleading look in her eyes.

_Great I guess I have to go with her stupid teme could have at leasttold her no or give a reason as to why he couldn't I can't just walkoff now after that she'd probably be crushed._ "Alright Sakura wheredo you want to-AHH" before the Namikaze could finish his sentenceSakura grabbed his hand and ran taking off at full speed with Narutotrailing behind her trying to get his footing after being dragged soforcefully so fast.

After a few minutes they arrived at Naruto's favorite place, IchirakuRamen.

"I know this is your favorite place Naruto-kun so I figured thiswould be the best place for our first date." Sakura said with heartsin her eyes while Naruto blushed a deep red hue.

"Listen Sakura this isn't a date so much as just two uhh comradesgetting something to eat, more like team bonding ok?" He didn't wanther getting the wrong idea, while he did think that she was cute shewas still a fangirl and still a weak link in their chain, not someonethat he wanted to date or consider dating at the moment.

"Oh, alright Naruto just continue to play hard to get, I'll get youon a real date with me one of these days." She said with a smile.Naruto smiled back at her, after that they ordered and ate their mealdoing rather little talking as Sakura just enjoyed his company whileNaruto wasn't too sure what to talk about. Once they finished eatingNaruto paid for the food and told Sakura goodbye.

It was already late at night when he got home, the lights on showingthat Minato was already home as well.

"Tousan I'm home!"

Minato teleported down to the first story of their house, right infront of Naruto, who had a huge smile on his face as he knew his dadas given them their mission. "Thank you for the mission tousan, butKakashi sensei told me that we probably won't get too fight atall."

"What have I told you Naruto? Don't actively go out seeking violenceand enjoy the peace. Fighting and violence and hate should never besought after, but that's not to say you shouldn't alway be preparedfor it. That's why we train and get stronger, not to seek it out butto be able to protect our precious people when it does find us."

At this Naruto looked down and offered an apology as his father hadtold him this same speech before. He had told him that he was sosimilar to his mother who was constantly getting into fights and

could be somewhat hot-headed and quick to temper at times. He hadtold him this with a smile though and said to not change, but tone itdown a little which Naruto had been working on, he was just excitedfor his first actual mission outside of the village.

Minato grabbed his son in a hug and ruffled his hair, eliciting alaugh from his son. Despite being considered an adult by most alreadyhis son was still 12 and after this mission he would assign them moreand more c-ranks where he will fight and inevitably take a life andthen soon after B's the A's until he was taking S-ranks and alltraces of this innocence and childish would be gone so he'd be damnedif he didn't cherish every moment of spending time with his son whilehe still had his innocence.

"Alright you need to go pack Naruto and don't forget to store morechakra into your ring, if you complete this mission I'm going toteach you a new training method sounds good?"

"How about that and a new jutsu?"

"Hmmmmmm no"

Naruto fell on his face at this response, once he picked himself backup he glared at his father "why not?"

"Because with this new technique you'll be able to learn everythingmuch faster than you were before so this alone is enoughreward."

"Ah you can't teach it to me now? Please tousanplease?"

"Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm no" Minato said then laughed as his son once againfell on his face. "You have to complete your mission this is yourreward for completing it not being assigned it."

Naruto looked at his dad with a frown then sighed as said he neededto pack he ran up to his room while Minato teleported back to thetraining room where he was currently working on perfecting therasengan. After all these years he was still having difficultycombing the jutsu with a chakra nature, given he didn't get to workon it as often as he liked due to his duties as Hokage and traininghis son taking up a good majority of his time.

He created a rasengan in his right hand then put his left hand rightover it and applied wind nature chakra too it. At first nothing thenhe heard a slight humming sound and then small blades protruded outof the sphere. And then, like every attempt previous, the jutsuexploded and he landed on his back with tears in his clothing. "Ahwell attempt 25 failure as well." It was at this point he felt asurge of chakra that filled him with dread. He instantly teleportedto his son's room as the only time he had felt something similar wasthe Kyuubi itself. When he got to Naruto's room he saw that his sonwas in a deep meditation and he was drawing on the Kyuubi's chakraand immediately sending it to the ring.

"Naruto…NARUTO!" His son was still in meditation but with thedemonic chakra flowing around him it was too dangerous to touch him.Thankfully his son was only in this state for another minute beforehe opened his eyes to see his dad staring at him with a questioning

look.

"I'm assuming you're wondering what I was doing?"

"Yes I was, if you were to draw on the chakra wit the amount you'veput in the ring you'd immediately lose control to the fox so whatexactly are you trying to accomplish?"

"You said I should have chakra stored in here in case of anemergency, well if I'm in a fight that actually drains me thensomething is definitely wrong so I've been working on a jutsu thatwill allow me to shoot rapid bursts of the chakra out of the ring, afinal trump card that packs one hell of a punch similar to bijuudamabut on a much smaller scale that also shoots much faster."

His father thought about this technique, if his son were weakenedfrom chakra exhaustion then it would be safe to assume that an enemyrather than killing him with a jutsu would get up close and use aninja tool to finish the job. If they were that close then all Narutowould have to do would be to raise his fist to the enemy and shoot,being at close enough range the blast wouldn't even explode insteadwould just go right through someone. He looked down and smiled at hisson "well hopefully you won't have to resort to that technique but itis a very effective one."

Naruto smiled and told his father that he needed to finish packingand then go to sleep. His father again ruffled his hair and told himto be careful then he teleported back to the training area tocontinue his project.

The next morning the Jinchuriki jumped out of bed, got dressed,grabbed his pack, and headed out opting to, like his godfather, takethe window. The second he hit the ground he took off in a sprint tothe gate. Kakashi was already there being early for once and soon theother members of their team arrived. After about 10 minutes aftereveryone arrived their client, their bridge builder,arrived.

"Alright team this is our client Tazuna."

"You know when I paid for an escort I was expecting actual ninja likeyou not 3 children who are still wet behind their ears and theirbabysitter." As the man said all of this they could almost see thealcohol on his breath as even a civilian standing far away couldprobably smell it while he talked.

Kakashi, choosing to answer for his team as they all seemed ratherangry and offended for being called children said "I assure youTazuna-San my team is more than capable for this mission and ifanything should go wrong I am an elite, a jounin so everything willbe ok."

"Hmph right well let's get going then we're wasting daylight." Theold bridge builder answered before he began to walk off out of thegates."

The group followed after him and continued to walk. At his currentpace they should arrive at the land before the sun set. The groupcontinued walking with nothing occurring for a few hours until Narutospotted a puddle in the middle of the path.

_It hasn't rained in days there's no way that's natural, and I cansense a chakra signature these guys are really bad but tousan hastold me before the fall of great ninja comes from being too arrogantI shouldn't underestimate these guys._ After thinking this Narutothen tossed a sideways glance at Sasuke, they gave each other asubtle nod and continued walking past the puddle. Once they passedSasuke and Naruto sent chakra to their ears to better hear and afterabout 10 steps they heard something make a slight ripple on the waterand then heard the sound of a chain.

Kakashi jumped in front of everyone, "Protect the bridge builder!" Hecharged at the demon brothers who managed to get their chain aroundthe jounin and pulled splitting him in pieces. Naruto saw the logfall though and knew Kakashi was testing them. "Sakura protect him!"Naruto and Sasuke then drew their blades and charged at thebrothers."

"What're you kids going to do we just killed your sensei you guyshave no chance." The brothers ran at them with their claws, aiming tohit their hearts. Both boys stopped the attack with their swords andheld the brothers at a stand still. Naruto swung up, throwing the hisopponents arm upwards, then charging chakra through his blade swungdown cutting right through the chain the brothers had connectingthem. Naruto ducked as the brother slashed and then he thrustedforward. The brother jumped back and to the side but Naruto's bladewas extended with wind chakra and so he caught the brother on theside, the wind blade sliding right through his flesh. "Argh, you'redead kid you hear me I'm going to cut your head right from your damnshoulders." Naruto looked at him and smiled then he charged andjumped over the brother creating a shadow clone in mid air. Theykicked off of each other one in front and the other behind theiropponent. "I'd give up now if I were you otherwise you're going todie." The brother charged at the Naruto in front of him who he onceagain attempted to slash at and was stopped by Naruto's blade. Thebrother looked behind him and saw the clone running at him. He jumpedat the last second avoiding the deadly swipe the clone had made.Seeing an opening he ran at Sakura and the bridge builder. Naruto sawthis and focused chakra to his entire body and ran forward his swordheld pointing forward at his side with both hands. He didn't see asthe sword ran his opponent through as the speed blurred his vision.He only stopped when he felt warm liquid on his hand. The sudden stopcaused the brother to jolt forward off Naruto's blade and face firston the ground. He dropped his sword and his whole body became shaky.He looked down and saw the blood covering his hands then he lookedforward and saw the life giving liquid in a large pool around the nowdead demon brother. His breathing came in short spurts and he almostyelled when he felt a hand on his shoulder. He looked up and sawKakashi looking down on him with a sadness in his eyes.

"It's ok Naruto it's ok, he would've killed Sakura and the bridgebuilder if you hadn't done that, we are Shinobi and we must kill inour line of work otherwise we will be killed, that being said itshould never come easily we are not emotionless killing machines. Areyou ok Naruto?"

"Ye-yeah I will be." He then looked around and saw two otherKakashis, one with Sasuke who was standing over the other demonbrother who was covered in burn marks and cauterized blade slashes,probably giving Sasuke the same speech, and the other one was with

Sakura and the bridge builder. Sasuke's eyes were wide and he wasshaking as well. The trio regrouped and the two extra Kakashidisappeared.

"Alright Tazuna those were B-rank missing-nin now tell me everythingor me and my team leave you here right now. Tazuna then told them ofGato and how he was destroying his home and the bridge was their onlychance. Kakashi sighed and looked down at his team, their facestelling him everything he needed to know.

"Alright Tazuna let's go we will continue to protect you."

The group walked and after a while a mist surrounded the group afterwalking a few more miles they could see a lake in the distance and aboat close by them. Tazuna boarded the boat and Kakashi told them allto stay hidden as Gato had guards keeping watch for Shinobieverywhere. After a short boat ride they arrived to the other side ofthe lake and got out.

"Alright we're not too far from my house." As he said that Narutothrew a kunai into the bushes and a white rabbit came running outwith its eyes wide open.

"What the hell are you doing do-"

"EVERYONE GET DOWN!" Kakashi yelled grabbing Tazuna as he dropped tothe floor as a huge cleaver like blade flew overhead and imbeddeditself in the tree right next to them. A tall ninja wearing onlyblack pants and striped leg and arm warmers landed on the giantcleaver like sword.

"Ah Kakashi Hatake of the Sharingan eye and his brats, I'm assumingyou killed the demon brothers then." The mysterious ninja said in adeep and raspy voice.

"Zabuza Momochi otherwise known as the demon of the mist, Naruto,Sasuke, Sakura surround Tazuna protect him." _I can't afford to holdback against him I have to end this fast and soon while Naruto andSasuke are skilled they can't fight someone like this. _He thenreached up and lifted his hitai-ate up revealing the blood red eyewith three tomoe surrounding it.

_What?! Whose eye is that? Itachi or Otousan have never said anythingabout anyone outside of the clan having an sharingan. _

"Revealing the eye already Kakashi? I feel honored that you are goingall out in this fight. Hahaha it's been awhile since I've been in afight against another elite Shinobi. Let's see what you've gotKakashi!" Zabuza shouted as he jumped down grabbing the handle of hisblade and ripping it from the tree as he ran at full speed at hisopponent. Kakashi drew a kunai and charged it with raton chakra andblocked the downwards strike inches before it cleaved his head intwo. After a stalemate in strength the two Shinobi jumped away fromeach other and at the exact same time started an incredibly longchain of seals Kakashi copying and doing the seals Zabuza wasperforming instantly. The team of genin could only stare in awe atthe ability of Kakashi, to be able to copy those seals in aninstance, there was absolutely no delay in their execution of seals."Suiton: Water dragon Jutsu!" Both Shinobi shouted at the same exacttime creating identical dragons that crashed into each other

showering everyone. A faint outline of a smile could be seen underthe wrappings on the demons face as he performed another seal and twoclones of Zabuza rose from the puddles closest to the trio. In aninstant Sasuke and Naruto had their blades drawn, the watereverywhere was creating steam once it made contact with sasuke'sblade making it much harder for him to see. He sent two short burstturning the fire off then he channeled chakra to his blade so itwould still have added strength and sharpness. The clones did andoverhead swing crashing into the two genins swords causing them tosink into the wet ground. Naruto sent chakra to his right arm givinghim enough strength to let go with his left arm and create a rasenganthrusting forward into the clone dispelling it but still receiving agash on his shoulder as his arm gave out at the last second. He rantowards Sasuke who was still barely managing to hold off the clone.He already had a few minor gashes on his body. Naruto pointed hissword forward and extended the length with wind chakra as fast as hecould attempting to get the clone across its back. Unfortunately theclone kicked Sasuke away and jumped away out of harm's way.

"Kakashi those brats of yours are better than I thought the blond onewas able to take out one of them already and the other one hasn'tdied yet either." Zabuza said as he and Kakashi again clashed againsteach other, Zabuza with his blade and Kakashi with two kunainow.

"Katon: fireball jutsu!" Both Sasuke and Naruto shouted trapping theclone with no way to escape. The two infernos collided then dispersedleaving only steam in the air where the clone had been.

Zabuza and Kakashi continued in a fierce me jutsu match but Zabuzawas getting the upper hand it had been a while since Kakashi hadfought with a sword, he was out of practice and Zabuza was gainingthe advantage. Kakashi swung down as he swung up. Kakashi held theblade down then sent lightning chakra through his kunai into Zabuza'sblade electrocuting the demon of the mist. He screamed in agony as itburned him. He let go then stomped on the handle sending the blade upbreak Kakashi's guard. He delivered a savage kick to Kakashi's torsoand smiled as he felt at least one rib snap as the kick sent him intothe lake. The demon then disappeared and reappeared behind the geninand behind Tazuna. Right as he was about to strike Naruto and Sasuketurned and thrust forward nearly getting the demon. He was again goneand appeared next to Sasuke who he picked up and threw into a treeknocking him out as he his his head. Sakura ran at him with a kunaito which Zabuza just laughed and delivered a swift blow to herstomach dropping her leaving her deprived of air. "Just you nowblondie if I were you I'd move away and let me kill the drunk, you'lllive longer that way."

Naruto looked at the man and realized how out classes he was. Onelook and he felt fear but he felt one other thing, the one thing hepulled on and drew out creating a small shapeless shroud around himof orange chakra that turned his eyes red and gave his pupils a slitappearance. "A Jinchuriki huh well this will be fun then." Zabuzaswung the cleaver and Naruto not only blocked the attack but also cuta bit into the blade as his sword now had demonic chakra runningthrough it increasing its strength and cutting power ten fold. Narutothen disappeared and reappeared behind Zabuza, his speed would bealmost impossible for most genin and some chunin to follow.

_Hmm the boy is almost as fast as Haku._ Naruto then kicked forward,

Zabuza spun around and stabbed the tip of the blade into the groundblocking the kick. _No he's faster than Haku as he is now, this willbe fun._ The demon lifted the blade and spun it throwing Naruto offbalance and open. Zabuza dashed forward delivering an elbow to thedemonic boy's stomach and then he spun delivering a savage roundhouseto his chin sending Naruto flying away. As he was walking toward thefrightened Tazuna Kakashi jumped from the lake shouting "raton:Lightning gun!" He pointed at Zabuza with his index and middle fingerand a bolt of fast moving electricity shot towards Zabuza who jumpedaway narrowly missing the attack. As he landed he heard behind him ina deep savage voice **"Secret technique: demonic ring multipleblasts!" **Zabuza took off sprinting as Naruto who was now making afist and pointing towards Zabuza shot off blasts of chakra thatcreated small explosions as they made contact with solid objects.Naruto got one right in front of the Shinobi forcing him to jump overit, Naruto then shot at him again, just barely grazing his leg,causing the demon to yell while he was propelled into a tree, thepain as the chakra burn and poison was almost instant raked throughhim. Kakashi took advantage of this and threw several kunai into hisarms and legs pinning him to the tree and causing him to yell againin pain. Kakashi walked over to him holding a kunai.

"This is your last battle Zabuza, make your peace now." Kakashi saidas he raised his kunai holding it right to his heart. Right as he wasabout to plunge the blade into him two senbon came flying in stabbingthe demon in the neck electing a groan from his as his head fellforward and his body slumped, held up only by the kunai. Kakashiturned around and saw a hunter-nin standing in the trees.

"Thank you for your help in taking down the demon, lord Yagura willbe very happy as he has many secrets of kiri." The hunter droppeddown and removed the kunai then picked up his body and threw it overtheir shoulder. Sasuke and Sakura came to at this point and looked upseeing the hunter nin disappear and the last wisps of red chakra fadeaway from Naruto.

"Kakashi Sensei!" "Naruto-kun!" Was all Kakashi and Naruto heardbefore both of their worlds went black.

**Well that was a longer one, took longer than I expected too but asusual let's continue to get this story spread. I hope y'all likedthis and if not leave a comment on what I could do better see you allnext time, after the next chapter I will reveal the pairing as wellsee you guys next time. **

4. Chapter 4

**Hopefully you guys liked that last chapter the land of waves arcwill be finished here then I'll probably jump right into the chuninexams, there's not much need for filler this early into the story andI have a few surprises I'm working out for the chunin exams as wellafter the next chapter you guys should have a pretty good idea of whothe pairing will be hopefully you guys like thisone.**

**Disclaimer: don't own Naruto but one day Kishi one day I will.**

Chapter 4: The Demon of the Mist

"They're waking up!"

"Are they ok?"

"Serves them right trying to be heroes against Gato."

"Inari go to your room!"

All the voices blurred together and sounded far away to the youngJinchuriki, it was the pain in his right hand that brought him to. Itwas right on his ring finger was a dull burning sensation that camein clearly at first then the voices came in clearer and clearer andthen his eyes opened and the first thing he saw was Sakura who wasinches from his face. "Gah, Sakura what are you doing?!" He felt hisface turn red.

"Just making sure you're ok Naruto-kun you and Kakashi sensei scaredus, me and Sasuke-kun had to carry him back and Tazuna carriedyou."

"Kakashi sensei." Naruto said while sitting up and quickly scannedthe room finally landing on his sensei who was still laying down buthad his head turned so he could look at Naruto. "Kakashi sensei areyou ok?"

"Yeah I'm fine Naruto just a little case of chakra exhaustion." Hesaid with an eye smile.

"Tch he can't move he woke up about 30 minutes before you and wasn'table to move at all." Sasuke said.

"How long have we been out?"

"Only a couple of hours not too long." Sasuke said

Naruto took off his ring to inspect the burning there. The skin wasstill raw and red but not as bad as it must've been after he firstused it. Hmm have to have tousan look at that this could beproblematic later on if I continue to use it or use it too much inone go. He then channeled his regular chakra into the ring and theburning went away and his finger healed almost instantly. The sealscan't properly filter out bijuu chakra tousan should be able to fixthat but I'm going to have to bear with it until we getback.

"Kakashi you said you have chakra exhaustion right?"

"Yes why?"

Naruto then channeled more chakra into the ring and made a fistpointing at Kakashi. Wisps of chakra were visible as they arced intothe stone then flew out in a thin stream into Kakashi.

"Tell me when you have enough chakra sensei."

The seals on the ring also allowed chakra to be shared between Narutoand others so he could also replenish their chakra supplies if theneed were to arise.

After a few minutes Kakashi was able to sit up then after about 5 hewas able to stand and told Naruto to cut the flow. Even after allthat Naruto hadn't even broken a sweat or looked tired at all.

"Ah much better thank you Naruto."

Before Naruto could respond Tazuna yelled from downstairs thatbreakfast was ready, making the team realize how hungry they allactually were.

"Tsunami these are the ninja that I hired to save us the adult isKakashi, the pink one is Sakura, the one with black hair is Sasuke,and the blond one is Naruto."

"Pleasure to meet you all, thank you for coming to our aid, as youknow by now Gato will destroy this place and it will become justanother source of money for that evil man." Tsunami said with a hintof sadness in her voice.

"Don't worry Tsunami-san we will defeat Gato and save this place."Naruto said with a smile that quickly fell from his face as a littleboy came down from the stairs and shouted at them with tears in hiseyes "You all are idiots there's no such thing as a hero, Gato willkill you all and then he will continue with his plans you all shouldjust leave before you die."

"Inari! Enough of that." Tazuna yelled at his grandson. Inari thenran up to his room and slammed the door shut with a loud bang.

"I'm sorry about that, Inari's step-father was killed in a publicexecution, he was considered a hero by the people of this land andseeing him killed like that for trying to oppose Gato destroyedInari, and the people's hope. Many of them had given up until myfather began to build the bridge, bringing everyone's hope back butInari, well you've just seen how he is still." Tsunami said, tearsthreatening to fall down her face.

"We will defeat him and with that bring back Inari's hope I promiseyou that Tsunami-san." Kakashi said looking at the hopeful faces ofhis team. The team then ate their breakfast made by Tsunami then wentout into the woods to train, Kakashi needed to work on their teamwork somewhere and teach Sakura chakra control techniques andhopefully some jutsu.

"Alright Naruto, Sasuke I'm fairly sure you both know how to treewalk." Both boys nodded "Alright Sakura I need to work on that withyou, in the meantime I want both of you to work on chakra controlexercises, your chakra control can never be too good and I have a fewjutsu I want to teach you, I have a 1000 after all." He said with aneye smile. The boys then went to work sticking as many leaves aspossible to their bodies while running on water as there was a smallpond next to where they were training at. Kakashi then showed Sakurathe tree walking exercise and told her how to accomplish it and tohis shock she made it up halfway on the first time. _She hasincredible chakra control it shouldn't take too long for her to getthis down, she'd be good with genjutsu and any techniques that arewithin her capabilities should be learned rather fast, I wish I hadchakra papers with me so I could start her off on her elementaltraining. I want to train the boys in another jutsu I'll teach Narutoa wind jutsu and Sasuke another fire, their collaborations are good

another one won't hurt._

The copy-ninja looked out at the boys running on water and Sakurarunning up the tree steadily getting farther each time. He figured nobetter time than now to read his book and he plopped down next to atree and pulled his book out. After an hour he heard someone walkingover to him and looked up seeing Sakura. He then looked behind herand saw a slash across the very top of the tree. He called the boysover as well from their chakra exercises. "Alright team Zabuza isn'tdead." There wasn't a look of shock on any of their faces. "Wefigured that, hunter-nin don't use senbon and they didn't strike thejugular or his spine, the fake hunter-nin is his partner." Sasukesaid

"Yes exactly and it takes skill to throw senbon for precision likethat, they could have very easily hit somewhere vital and well thatwould be the end of the demon so Sakura I'm going to work with you onyour taijutsu and Naruto, Sasuke I'm going to teach you both newjutsu for a collaboration technique, Naruto I'll teach you windbullet and Sasuke I'll teach you fire bomb, combined that shouldcreate a very fast, very deadly firestorm. Kakashi then created twoclones to go work with each genin. The main one went with Sakura ashe felt she needed his attention the most.

"Alright Sakura I'm going to block and I want you to hit me deadcenter of the block with everything you have I need to see how strongyou are first."

She nodded then reared back and threw a punch forward pushing Kakashiback by 5 feet, surprising the hell out of him. _She's strong if shekeeps working at this her strength will be quite devastating, notsomething anyone would want to be on the receiving end of._ With thisknowledge in mind Kakashi began teaching her a new taijutsu style asshe only knew of the one taught at the academy. This style focused onfast and powerful punches that aimed at vital points on the body todisable and kill opponents. He wanted her to at least have the stylefirst and then work on her speed as her expertise grew.

One of the clones took Naruto aside and showed him the jutsu firstthen the seals. "Alright Naruto I want you to get to the point whereyou don't have to hit your stomach to launch the bullet, this willdecrease the time it will take to launch the attack and if you don'thave to rely on that to propel the bullet the strength of it shouldbe better than if you did rely on hitting your stomach. So I want youto perform the seals then immediately take in as much air as you canhold. While doing this focus the chakra to your lungs at first andhold it there, form it into a ball holding the air together then justlike exhaling but not everything at once release a small portion ofit trail the chakra up your throat and have everything explode out ofyour mouth." Naruto did all of this and his first attempt a smallball of compressed air shot out and dented into a tree.

"Alright good you have the general idea of it. Now just have to geteverything down into its final form just keep practicing, but thatwas a good first attempt."

The clone with Sasuke took him to the edge of the pond as they werein the woods and didn't want to set the place aflame.

"Alright Sasuke you should have a pretty good grasp of fire jutsu,

this one is more like a combination of the Phoenix flower jutsu andthe fireball jutsu. You start off as you would with the Phoenixflower jutsu but then add more chakra and create only one ball offire. Condense the chakra down and focus on increasing the strengthwhile creating the ball as small as possible then shoot it out asfast as possible when it collides with an object it should expandthen explode. The more power the larger the explosion." Kakashi thenperformed the technique shouting "Katon: fire bomb jutsu" launchingthe small ball into the water. Nothing happened at first then all ofthe water around where the ball had landed shot up violently."Alright now that you've seen it you try." Sasuke did as he was toldand shot out a larger ball into the water. The explosion was lessthan Kakashi's but still a decent size. "Good you have the generalidea just work on condensing it and shooting it faster, Naruto's windbullet will be flying quite fast so you won't have much time tocombine them."

The trio worked on their new techniques all day until night fell andit was time to go back to tsunami's house. Each genin was making fastprogress with their skills but Tazuna went back to building the nextday meaning one of them would go with Kakashi to help keep watchwhile the other two stayed and trained.

"Alright dinner is ready everyone." tsunami said as the team walkedinto the house.

Four thank yous' were heard as each member of the team gaveone.

"Sakura do you have any problems with keeping watch with metomorrow?" Kakashi asked.

"No sensei that's fine and I can still train some while we'rewatching." This mission had really put things in perspective for thegirl as she had been completely useless in both fights and had torely on her two "loves" to rescue her. She knew they wouldn't lovesomeone weak and so promised herself that she'd begin taking thisseriously and train hard to get strong enough for one or both,preferably both, to fall in love

"I'm going back out to train a little more Kakashi sensei." Narutoannounced just as he finished his food. He then washed and put theplate away before leaving to go back into the woods where he wouldtrain until falling asleep out there.

A girl, maybe a year or two older than Naruto, wearing a pink kimonothat had designs of flowers on them, was walking around the woods.She was carrying a woven basket on her left arm that had been filledwith various herbs and by the looks of it she was still looking forothers. That is until she saw someone asleep in the grass. _That'sthe boy who injured Zabuza-sama. Because of him he was sufferingchakra poisoning, I almost lost him from that, if he had any lesschakra the poison would've killed him. _She then pulled out twosenbon and put them between her fingers. As she was about to throwthem Naruto stirred and quick as lightning she hid the weapons andwalked out in front of him.

Naruto woke up to seeing a beautiful girl right in front of him. Ashe was just barely waking up and not thinking properly he mutteredangel causing the girl to turn a shade of red. He opened his eyes and

turned beet red at the realization of what he just said. Heimmediately shot up causing the girl to stumble back slightly.

"Uh hello there." Naruto said with a hint of curiosity in hisvoice.

"I'm sorry for disturbing you, I was out here collecting herbs andwell it's not all too often you see someone asleep out in thewoods."

"Ah yeah hehe I kinda fell asleep out here after training."

"Ah you're a Shinobi?"

He looked around and saw the signs of destruction from him trying toperfect the drilling wind bullet. _Yeah pretty obvious that I'm one._

"Yes I am" he said with a smile and pride in has voice.

"You must be very powerful, the damage to this area is quiteimpressive."

"Hehe thanks I'm always trying to get stronger, if I may ask why areyou out here?"

"I'm out collecting different herbs"

"What're they for?"

"My father was attacked by Gato's men, we don't have enough money togo to the doctors but I know a bit about which plants help alonghealing."

_Missions are supposed to be kept secret from others but these peopleneed hope and need to know Gato's control over this place will soonend. These people don't need to live in fear any more and what can bethe harm she's a civilian and she's been affected by Gato and his meneven more than others._ "I'm on a mission actually, in a few days youwon't have to be afraid of Gato, I'm here to protect the bridgebuilder."

"You're so young taking on such a task can't be easy for you."

"I'm a Shinobi, the second I earned my hitai-ate I became an adult,age itself doesn't matter in this life there's children who arestronger than my sensei and taking on this mission will make mestronger as well."

"Why do you want to get stronger? Do you have someone precious inyour life?"

Images flashed through his head of his friends and family. "Yeah Ihave a lot of people that are precious to me that I want to be ableto protect one day."

"That's good you find true strength when you fight for someoneprecious other than yourself you push more and use everything thatyou have to protect them."

"Yeah I believe that too."

"I don't believe I know your name? I'm Haku."

"Naruto."

"Well Naruto I enjoyed talking to you, I must be on my way though, myfather is expecting me back soon."

"I'd like to talk to you again soon Haku, maybe tomorrow around thesame time?"

"Maybe Naruto I do hope so, and just so you know, I'm a boy."

The blond froze at this then focused chakra to his nose. "Hm noyou're not, I thought I smelled something before but now I know forsure it's coming from you, you're wearing a perfume and actuallythere's a faint outline of bindings under your kimono." He said witha small grin as his new friend seemed taken aback by this.

"Well you are observant, I say that because-"

"Because of Gato's men right?"

"Yes because of them."

The new friends parted ways and walked back to where they wereexpected.

"Where were you at dobe?"

"Just training teme, you need to pick up the slack otherwise my jutsuwill over power yours."

He looked over at Naruto and saw he seemed to be distracted, and thegrin he had on wasn't the same one he wore while he insulted Sasuke."Hn" was his response as Naruto walked away.

The days passed by and each morning Naruto and Haku met with eachother and talked and talked, just about anything. He began to trusther more and told her bits and pieces of his life while she did thesame revealing that she and her father were refugees from kiri toescape the war. They hadn't been fearful or held hate for bloodlineusers and so they were forced to flee or be executed. He told herthat his mother was killed shortly after he was born and of hisrivalry with Sasuke and general life as a ninja. They talked abouttheir interests and hopes and wants for the future, for Naruto tobecome Hokage and for Haku to finally find a peaceful life andprotect anyone she would come to find precious. He didn't know whenit had happened but after awhile he couldn't see her without blushingat first and after that he realized she was the prettiest girl he'dever seen. She soon began blushing almost every time they made eyecontact. But the the thought kept lingering in the back of her head,making it hurt when she looked at him. She knew she would have tofight him soon but hopefully she could fight him before Zabuza got tohim at least that way he'd live. She was so angry with herself to lethim slowly worm his way into her and become someone she caredfor.

The days soon came and went until it was their last meeting, Kakashi

had told the team the night before to be prepared, Zabuza had enoughtime to heal and he'd be making his move soon. Haku knew they wereattacking the next day and she was so tempted to tell him everythingbut she steeled herself and held her tongue, they were so close toaccomplishing Zabuza's, and as a byproduct her, goal, to finallyassassinate Yagura and take back control of Kiri. They needed themoney from this job though so they could get the last resources theyneeded. The ends justified the means as Zabuza told her when she wasrequired to kill.

"Haku-chan"

"Naruto-kun" they both said at the same time. "Go firstNaruto."

"Our mission should be over soon, so there's a possibility that Iwon't be able to see you, so this is it. Thank you Haku-chan foreverything."

"Thank you as well Naruto-kun, maybe we will see each othersoon."

He went in to hug her but at the last moment she put her hands on hisface and pulled him in. Their lips met. His brain shut off for a fewseconds then after he realized what was happening he closed his eyesand kissed her back their arms wrapping around each other in a tightembrace. For a moment nothing else existed for either of them, nomissions, no Gato, no ninjas. Only them. And that's all that matteredfor the time. Then it ended, their lips separating and theirforeheads resting on each other's as they looked at each other, adeep caring and passion in their eyes.

"Thank you Naruto-kun" she said then before he could say anythingback she let go and walked away from the boy she fell in love with,tears threatening to fall down her face. He looked at her as shewalked away and it clicked that he wouldn't be seeing her for a verylong time, he can't exactly leave the village to come here wheneverhe wanted to. The first girl whose feelings for him he reciprocatedand he wouldn't see her again. He began to feel a dull ache in hischest while watching her walk away. He stayed there until he couldn'tsee her anymore. After a bit a small thin smile came across his faceand he touched his lips. A bittersweet moment for him in everysense.

He walked back to the house the same smile still etched on hisface.

"Something happen out there Naruto?" Kakashi asked a smile underneathhis mask. The last few days Naruto had come back smelling of lavenderand now he had that smile on his face, the same smile his father hadwhenever he would talk about or see Kushina.

"Huh you say something Kakashi sensei?"

Kakashi raised an eyebrow at his student and looked at him with asmile underneath his mask _We're on a mission Naruto you shouldn't begetting involved like this, live and learn I suppose, but he willhave to learn the ways of a Shinobi soon something like this canprove dangerous on missions, we have to be emotionless in certainsituations._ He didn't voice any of these thoughts though, he already

knew Naruto would find this out once they left and he would no longersee the girl. He was pretty sure that Naruto already knew this but itwould hit him in full force once they arrived home. "Naruto go getSasuke and Sakura they're out back training still I need to talk toyou all."

Naruto went out and told them to come inside. Him and Sasuke had beenworking on their jutsu although Naruto's was still stronger as he hadbeen working on it more and had more chakra to pump into it but overall their collaboration technique was good and was quite powerful.Sakura had been working on her taijutsu trying to make it strongerand stronger which had come with some success her attacks werestronger than before but she had a lot to work on. That being said adirect hit in the right area would hurt a lot and if a genin were totake one they'd most likely end up with a few broken bones.

The trio gathered inside and their sensei looked at them, theprevious joking manner he had now gone replaced with the deadlyseriousness of a Shinobi. "Tomorrow will most likely be it, Tazunadoesn't need much longer to finish the bridge and Zabuza will havehad enough time to completely heal from everything so you all need tobe prepared and ready for another fight. This is a different battleground now, he knows our skills and he'll have his partner with him.We all need to be at a hundred percent so that's enough training fornow, make sure you have all your equipment and we'll go over battlestrategies." They agreed upon Naruto and Sasuke taking on Zabuza'spartner and Kakashi taking on Zabuza himself. Sakura would guardTazuna. Naruto would only call upon the Kyuubi if it was absolutelynecessary and they prayed to Kami that the situation wouldn't arise.They spent the rest of the day going over different strategies forfighting but it was hard since they had no idea what Zabuza'spartner's abilities are.

**The next day**

The group arrived at the bridge, an unnatural and thick, stiflingmist hung around the entire area.

"This isn't normal, team get close and cover Tazuna."

"Hidden Mist Jutsu." A demonic raspy voice echoed throughout theentire area. The mist thickened to the point where it was almostimpossible to see in front of them. Then two figures walked forward,the mist moving away from them allowing the team and a frightenedTazuna to see them as they walked forward.

"Time for a rematch Kakashi." Zabuza looked down at his partner,"Gotake care of the three genin." Zabuza and Kakashi dashed forward justas Haku dashed towards the trio guarding Tazuna. Zabuza's bladeslashed through the air and Kakashi's kunai sparked to life. As theyclashed Zabuza increased the chakra in the jutsu completingconcealing himself again. "Your eye will do you no good hereKakashi."

"I don't need to see you to defeat you."

"You should worry about your brats, Haku will kill them I've trainedthe perfect weapon."

"I wouldn't worry about them Naruto and Sasuke together can handle

themselves they have been trained by some of the best inKonoha."

While Zabuza and Kakashi clashed against each other Haku had beenthrowing senbon at Naruto and Sasuke trying to separate them fromTazuna. The mist made it hard to see but they could still hear thesound of the needles flying towards them, their blades blocking eachsenbon before it hit Tazuna. The mist then cleared from them givingperfect sight of Haku right as she yelled "Secret Jutsu: A ThousandNeedles of Death"

"MOVE!" Naruto yelled. Sakura grabbed Tazuna and jumped one way whileNaruto and Sasuke both jumped towards the fake hunter-nin, barelyavoiding the needles as they ran towards her attempting to strike theninja down.

"Fuuton: crescent slash"

"Katon: crescent slash"

The boys yelled at the same time opting to try the new version oftheir Justus. The waves now were only the length of their bladesinstead of the length of the slash itself but they were more curvedincreasing the speed and power of the attacks. The attacks hit thespot Haku had occupied resulting in deep slashes on the area but Hakuhad dodged the attack completely.

"I can't afford to take chances with you two, I'll have to use mytrump card hyoton: demonic ice mirrors" a dome of mirrors appearedaround the boys trapping them in. The fake hunter-nin then walkedinto one of the mirrors and appeared on each one not giving away heractual position.

_Hyoton. No please no. That's a Kekkei genkai that was found in Kiri.Please don't let it be her. A refugee from Kiri with only her father.She knew how to apply medicinal herbs. The last time I saw her Icould have sworn I saw tears dropping while she walked away. Pleasedon't let it be her. Please Kami no._ Naruto could no longer dwell onhis thoughts as his and Sasuke's opponent began throwing kunai fromseemingly everywhere.

"Naruto the mirrors are ice"

"Right"

"Katon: fireball jutsu"

"Katon: fireball jutsu"

The Justus combined making an even larger fireball that crashed intothe dome. When the flames cleared though, the mirrors were perfectlyfine, not a scratch on them.

"You're going to have to try harder than that to break mymirrors."

Naruto dashed forward, his sword glowing with the amount of windchakra going through it. He slashed once he was close enough to amirror. The mirror stopped the blade dead in its tracks and earnedNaruto several senbon to his body. He looked at Sasuke and nodded his

head. They performed the seals and shouted

"Fuuton: drilling wind bullet"

"Katon: fire bomb jutsu"

The techniques shot forward and once they combined the boys shouted"collaboration technique: fire bomb bullet!" The small ball ofcondensed flames combined with the spinning bullet and shot forwardat incredible speeds smashing into the mirror and causing a largeexplosion creating several cracks in the mirror. The boys saw thisand shot towards it. Just as they were about to reach the mirror thehunter nin appeared in front of them and launched more senbon eachone striking the boys sending them flying back.

"You can't defeat me, both of you just admit defeat now and I won'tbe forced to kill you." Their opponent said in a flat and coldvoice.

"I have a few more aces but this one should do the trick." Narutosaid as he held out his hand forming a rapidly spinning blue ball ofpure chakra. He ran forward and Sasuke attempted to follow Haku'smovements so he could send out blasts of fire to block the incomingsenbon towards Naruto as he ran towards a mirror. As he got closerHaku threw more and more senbon making it harder and harder forSasuke to keep track until he felt a burning in his eyes and suddenlytime seemed to slow down and he could see her movements easier andeasier and see the senbon going forward. Sasuke blocked the attackswith ease and just as Naruto slammed his attack into a mirrorshouting "rasengan" and shattering it, Haku shouted " hyoton iceneedles" and rapidly formed needles, completely surrounding Sasuke.They all simultaneously slammed into Sasuke, proving to be too manyfor the young genin to dodge. As Naruto went through the mirror tothe other side of the dome he turned around to see blood fly out ofSasuke's mouth and watched him fall to the ground landing so thatNaruto couldn't see his face.

"No NO SASU**KE NO!"** Naruto yelled.

"He was a powerful opponent but Zabuza-sama gave me an order that Ineeded to fulfil, I am sorry."

Naruto felt a burning around him and a deep rage, more so than he hadever felt before and everything seemed to be tinged red. He looked atthe mirrors and could see which one his opponent was in. Before Hakucould jump to another mirror his tail slammed into it shattering themirror and wrapping around her. The tail burned her. It lifted her upthen slammed her down into the bridge creating cracks where shehit.

"**I'll kill you"** and before Haku could even get up she felt conacton her stomach then she was up in the air, Naruto's leg outstretched.Before she could even reach the peak of her ascent his tail shotforth and grabbed her ankle pulling her down and slamming her intothe bridge yet again.

_Naruto I'm so sorry. Zabuza I've failed you I can't defeat this boy,he's something else completely. Naruto I'm sorry for falling in lovewith you then taking on of your most precious people. _

"**DIE!" **Naruto shouted as he ran forward and picked Haku up withone hand before launching her again with a punch to the stomach. Shelanded with her face to the ground and stayed there.

"**GET UP I'M NOT DONE WITH YOU YET!" **With the last of her strengthshe stood up and watched as Naruto's tail came towards her pointedright at her heart. Before it could make contact her cracked maskfinally fell revealing her face. His tail stopped inches before itpunctured the kunoichi.** "Haku, why?"** He said his voice stilldeeper than usual, sounding more feral.

"I'm sorry Naruto-kun everything between us was never supposed tohappen." She looked into his eyes again and through the anger she sawsomething even worse. The sadness in his eyes. A deep and crushingsadness that she shared with him. "I'm sorry Naruto-kun, our fight isover now Zabuza-sama still needs me." She then ran forward and threwsenbon at him to distract him, if only for a second. He felt thechakra though and dashed forward seeing Kakashi's jutsu go forwardand Haku appear in front of Zabuza.

"**NO!"** He yelled as he jumped in between them grabbing Kakashi'sarm diverting him to the left and pushing Haku to the right. Kakashifelt the burning in his arm and looked with shock at Naruto's cloak.Naruto's tail acted at the same time, wrapping around Zabuza's neckand lifting him slightly off the ground. His tail began to restrictaround the demon's neck but before he could finish him a clappingechoed out as the mist cleared revealing a very short man wearing ablack suit and sunglasses despite the mist.

"Good kill him it will save us the trouble of doing so." The man saidas the mist cleared more and more showing a small army of men behindhim.

Naruto dropped Zabuza who fell to his knees while massaging hisburning throat.

"Well Kakashi it looks like we're on the same side now." He thenlooked to Naruto and pointed at Gato. "Hey kid, that's Gato, sickhim." Zabuza said a smile underneath the wrappings covering hismouth. At this Naruto, who was being corrupted more by the Kyuubievery second that passed, dashed forward faster than anyone otherthan the ninja could follow. Before his army could process whathappened Naruto had Gato by the throat at the end of the bridge, thesmell of burning flesh already seeping through the air. "Kid don't dothis I could make you rich, I could give you everything you want.Anything you could ever want just let me live!" Gato pleaded as histhroat burned. Naruto dropped him down. "Hehe smart kid now once youkill those guys over there I'll give you anything."

"**You know what I want?"**

"What kid? Anything and it's yours."

"**Your death!" **Naruto then created a rasengan and connected itwith Gato's stomach and extended his cloak stretching the arm outwell over the sea as the ball tore away at Gato's stomach rippingapart his innards and grinding his bones to dust. Once Gato's screamsstopped Naruto ended the jutsu letting the destroyed body fall intothe ocean. He then turned around and looked at the army then dashedforward two new rasengan already formed. He slammed the rasengan into

multiple people and used his tail to impale others going throughseveral people at a time. Even if the initial stab didn't kill themthe burning did. He used his claws to slash the men down hearingnothing but screams and flesh being torn from bone. Soon no one wasleft. Only Naruto stood among the destroyed remains of the men, gorecovering the entire area and the stench of burned flesh in the air.He looked around and saw Sakura holding Sasuke who was awake now,then his eyes moved to Haku who looked at him with fear. The cloakfaded and he dropped to his hands and knees and threw up, the impactof his actions hitting him.

He stayed on his hands and knees until he heard footsteps walkingtowards him. He looked up at Kakashi who had his arm outreached.Naruto grabbed his hand and Kakashi pulled him up. As he stood up hebegan to hear the sound of cheering and looked to the beginning ofthe bridge where he saw the whole village gathered cheering at thedefeat of Gato and his army.

"You're a hero Naruto." Kakashi said

"I'm a monster."

"No you're not, killing is part of our job Naruto these men were evilthere was no redemption for them and you were under the influence ofthe Kyuubi, feeding and increasing your hate. I'm sorry you had touse the cloak for the first time in an environment like this, youcan't blame yourself you've never used it before and couldn't haveknown how much influence it would put on you."

"Thank you sensei, what happens to them?" He asked pointing towardsHaku and Zabuza.

"Well that's up to them, they are no longer our enemies and youropponent didn't kill Sasuke, she put him in a death-likestate."

Naruto walked over to them and looked at Zabuza then briefly at Hakubefore he stuck his hand out to Zabuza who looked at him curiouslybefore shaking his hand. "Haku deserves better than you I hope youknow that she loves you as a father and you treat her as a weapon andnothing more she could've died while fighting me, I almost killed herbut I refrained and after everything that happened to her she stillran to save you." Naruto said looking at the man. They heard a thudand Zabuza turned around seeing Haku on the floor her eyes closed andher breathing shallow. Zabuza bent down quickly to feel her pulse tomake sure it was steady. His muscles tensed before he picked her up."Damn you boy you don't know what you're talking about, help me findsomeone who can treat her and fast NOW!" They ran into the crowd,many people regarding Zabuza with fear. Soon they found a doctor andHaku was rushed into the small hospital where they went about settingher broken bones while Zabuza ran in search of the herbs she had usedto help with his chakra poisoning. Once he found them he gave them tothe doctors who administered them. Once they said her vitals werestable they all left the hospital as Haku would have to remain therefor at the very least a week until she could move again and even atthat she won't be able to move for that long.

"Well Kakashi we are no longer enemies, I have a debt to pay to yourdamn brat so we will stay and help with the construction of thebridge." Zabuza said for once with no hint of malice in his

voice.

"Start treating her like a daughter." Naruto told him as he walkedaway.

"That kid has a unique ability Kakashi."

"Yes I know, everyone who is around him can't help but inevitablyliking him."

Naruto walked over to Sasuke and Sakura. "You ok teme?" He asked theRaven haired teen who was walking with a slight limp and had acertain pinkete next to him with her arms wrapped around him despitehis rather loud protests.

"Yeah I'm fine dobe, SAKURA GET OFF."

Sakura just smiled and wrapped her other arm around Naruto and pulledhim in close as well as Sasuke. "We did it we won." She said with asmile getting the same reaction out of her two teammates who allowedthe pinket to hug them longer for once.

After the battle had taken place it only took a few more days forTazuna to finally complete the bridge, the process being acceleratedby Naruto's hundreds of clones helping where they could. Once Hakuwas let out of the hospital she stayed at Tsunami's house along withZabuza as well. Naruto had refused to talk to her and he did all hecould to avoid coming into contact with her. He was hurt deeply,someone he trusted had turned against him and almost killed his bestfriend.

Inari was finally happy again and thanked Naruto for saving hisvillage. In return Naruto who took a liking to the young boy, gavehim a kunai and began teaching him how to fight with it.

The day came that the bridge was finally completed and open for use.Everyone was celebrating again, almost everyone that is except forNaruto and Haku who were still hurting. They all said their goodbyesto Tsunami, Tazuna, and Inari, who had tears in his eyes as he saidgoodbye to the heroes. The team from Konoha and the Mercenary and hisapprentice all walked down the bridge. They reached the edge of thebridge which connected to the land of fire's border.

"Do you two know where you will go from here?" Kakashi asked thetwo

"He for once we don't, I suppose to another village in search ofmercenary work." Zabuza replied.

Naruto looked at them and made a decision he had been thinking on forawhile. "My last name is Namikaze I'm fairly sure I can convinceTousan of this too, you both are invited to come with us and becomeShinobi for Konoha. Zabuza you're only a missing-nin because youstaged a coup on Yagura and in Konoha's eyes will not be seen as adangerous crime."

Zabuza looked at the boy, he was suspicious of his parentage beforehe told him his last name, after all the boy was almost a spittingimage of the yellow flash. He looked down to Haku "Well what do yousay Haku?"

"It would be nice to not be on the run for once Zabuza-sama"

"Haku, sensei is fine. Well boy it looks like we're taking you up onyour offer."

Naruto looked at Haku who offered him a smile, he turned away andbegan walking. The rest followed after him on their way back homeafter a long trip they were all different and had all changed forbetter or worse they were no longer the same people that left.

**Wow that one took awhile. So after thinking about it I'm going totake a poll I want FÅ« to be with Naruto I already decided on thatpairing but I want to know if you guys think I should have it justNaruto and her or Naruto FÅ« and Haku let me know in the comments andI'll be back soon with another chapter until then thank you guysagain. **

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